Opinion

OPINION: ETHNICITY CAN SET UP THE NEXT PRESIDENT FOR FAILURE

Whoever becomes the next President of Nigeria must wipe out Boko Haram in a month and fight corruption to a standstill? Right now it is either a doable task or you lose the Election based on voters’ expectation on...

OPINION: THE VICTORY GOES TO…

Finally, the week has arrived when Nigeria will face the oddest and staunchest test for its electoral experimentation. Odd because, as I have argued for some time, the two acknowledged top contending political parties are ideological twins, united by a...

OPINION: GOV. AKPABIO’S REIGN OF TERROR AND THE POLITICS OF BLOOD IN AKWA IBOM STATE

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OPINION: GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI: REWARDING BOKO HARAM THE ISLAMIC TERRORIST GROUP WITH THEIR WAR BOOTY

Facts speak for itself, please read newspaper headlines below. Boko Haram names Buhari, 5 others as mediators. Vanguard Newspaper. Thursday 1st November 2012. Islamic sect Boko Haram yesterday opted for dialogue with the Federal Government, picking former military leader Gen. Muhammadu...

OPINION: NURSING NIGERIA BACK TO HEALTH

Nigeria is presently standing naked before her peers. The love of money in the country is growing too disproportionately against our love of country. As it is widely known, the love of money is the root of all kinds...

OPINION: OKEZIE IKPEAZU MISREADS EVENTS

We know that Okezie Ikpeazu, the PDP gubernatorial candidate wants to become the Governor of Abia State and we wish him all well but not through lying. Lying, that’s what Abians are tired of. The other is intimidation, intimidation,...

OPINION: ILLEGALITY OR OTHERWISE OF CARD READERS IN NIGERIAN ELECTORAL JURISPRUDENCE

General Introduction There have been several and varied contentions to the validity or otherwise of the use of card readers in the forth-coming general elections. Without any iota of doubt, the history of our electoral laws unequivocally shows that the...

OPINION: DAVID MARK: A MAN WITH A MARK OF SHAMELESS PLEASURE  AND A MAN WITHOUT CHEST

On the eve of the fourth confirmation appearance of Musiliu Obanikoro as Defense Minister before David Mark's Senate, I penned an article titled “A Broken Senate Without Insight And Oversight  Means Musiliu Obanikoro Will Easily Scale Through: Can Any...

OPINION: MY PRESIDENT SHOULD KISS ME RIGHT

It is few days before the 2015 general election, and as we count down, the PDP and APC and their candidates must consider the wise admonition by Simon Sinek, that “leadership is not about the next election, it is...

OPINION: THAT ATTACK ON ALEX OTTI’S CONVOY IN ABIA

There are two major parties in Abia State contesting the gubernatorial seat: the PDP and APGA. Under sane circumstances, they should find themselves cooperating for reasons not far-fetched. One, they’re both victims of bad governance, two, their people are...